http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/37877238

Give us credit

Muhammad Yunus is a financial pioneer who has turned upside down the way banks look at their customers. He is the founder of the Grameen Bank in his native Bangladesh and the architect of the micro-lending revolution that is changing lives in places as far from Yunus's home as inner-city Chicago. In Give Us Credit, Alex Counts follows the lives of Grameen borrowers in Bangladesh and would-be entrepreneurs in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, where the Full Circle Fund, a scheme based on the Grameen concept, operates. The borrowers are all women, all working against great odds to become economically independent. Their stories are dramatic and powerful: The women in Bangladesh battle against the monsoon, disease, and the prejudices of their menfolk, while in Englewood, the crime and decay of the inner city ensure that each day is a struggle to survive and to make ends meet.

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